Jasper County Jail Overview
Jasper County Jail is operated by the Jasper County Sheriff's Department. The official facility map identifies one public county jail operation, with no separate official city jail, work-release annex, regional jail, state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center located in Jasper County. Municipal arrests from Bay Springs or Heidelberg can still appear on the Jasper County Jail roster after booking.
The jail holds pretrial detainees, people serving short local sentences, people held by court order, municipal arrestees once booked, Mississippi Department of Corrections holds, and other agency holds. That mix matters. A roster entry does not always mean a new arrest by the sheriff. Some entries reflect court orders, failure-to-appear matters, state holds, or another agency asking Jasper County Jail to keep custody until transfer or court action.
The sheriff staff page names Sheriff Randy Johnson as department leader and Jail Administrator Gloria Stevens as the person responsible for daily jail operations and inmate care. The county government site also lists the sheriff's department, while the sheriff website carries the jail roster, release list, staff page, press items, and contact form.
Jasper County Jail Population
No official rated bed capacity, average daily population report, annual booking report, or housing-unit count was located for Jasper County Jail. The published figures are narrower and should be read with care. A live inspection of the official roster found a point-in-time current roster count, while a Census-vintage correctional-population table gives an older local custody count. Neither source is a rated capacity figure.
The live count came from the official sheriff roster by counting visible arrest entries on June 18, 2026. The historical count came from the Prison Policy Initiative and Census 2020 correctional-population table for Jasper County Jail. Because no rated capacity was published, the two counts do not support a crowding or unused-bed conclusion.
Jasper County Jail Roster Lookup
The official lookup path is the Jasper County Sheriff inmate roster. It is a public list, not a database with a search box. Current roster cards show the booking photo, name, arrest number, arrest date, gender, race, age, arresting agency, and charges. Inspected current entries did not show bond amount, housing unit, court date, booking time, case number, height, weight, or projected release date.
- Open the current roster and scan the visible inmate cards.
- Use the browser find tool for a last name because no roster search field is visible.
- Check the arresting agency and charges to confirm that the record matches the person sought.
- Open the 48-hour release page if the person may have left custody recently.
- Call the jail before relying on the roster for travel, bond, visitation, or release timing.
The official roster image below comes from the sheriff's current inmate roster and shows the type of public fields available for Jasper County Jail custody checks.
The roster screenshot reinforces the key local point: Jasper County Jail lookup is done by reviewing listed cards rather than filling out a first-name, last-name, or booking-number form.
Jasper County Jail Contact
Use the sheriff's public contact information for jail and roster questions. The sheriff site lists the main jail phone number, while the county homepage gives a sheriff department number. Office hours are published, but custody status can change faster than a web page, so confirm before visiting or sending items.
Jasper County Jail
29 West 8th Ave.
Bay Springs, MS 39422
601-764-2588
Sheriff office hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday
Jasper County Sheriff's Department
Operator of the county jail
County homepage sheriff listing: 601-764-3050
Sheriff: Randy Johnson
Jail Administrator: Gloria Stevens
Jasper County Jail Visits
No official Jasper County Jail visitation schedule, visitor application rule, video visitation vendor, attorney-visit procedure, lobby check-in rule, or published dress code was located on the sheriff site during the research pass. That gap should be treated as a real operational limit. Do not assume a person can visit on a certain day just because another Mississippi jail uses that schedule.
| Topic | Published Jasper County status | What to do before acting |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visitation | Schedule not published | Call 601-764-2588 before travel. |
| Video visitation | No vendor located | Do not create an account until the jail confirms the service. |
| Visitor ID | Local rule not published | Ask what ID is accepted before arriving. |
| Attorney visits | Procedure not published | Counsel should contact the jail directly. |
| Visitor property | Property list not published | Leave bags and unneeded items secured away from the facility. |
For sentenced state-prison custody, MDOC publishes separate prison visitation rules through its family and friends materials. Those rules are not Jasper County Jail rules. A person who is still on the county roster should be treated as a county-jail custody contact until the jail or court confirms transfer.
Note: Confirm custody and visit status by phone before travel because the sheriff site does not publish a local visit calendar.
Jasper County Jail Mail
The sheriff site did not publish an official mail format, inmate-mail restrictions, money-deposit vendor, commissary provider, tablet service, phone vendor, video provider, or fee table for Jasper County Jail. Because no vendor was confirmed, no commercial deposit or phone provider should be treated as official. Verify custody, then call before mailing a letter, sending funds, or buying commissary or phone time.
| Service | Official detail found | Facility-specific action |
|---|---|---|
| Mail address format | Not published | Confirm the inmate name format and mailing rules first. |
| Commissary | No vendor located | Ask the jail whether deposits are accepted and how. |
| Money deposits | No fee table located | Do not rely on a third-party payment page without jail confirmation. |
| Phone or video | No vendor located | Ask whether the person has phone access and what service is used. |
Jasper County Jail Booking
After a local arrest, a person may be brought to Jasper County Jail by the sheriff's department, Bay Springs Police Department, Heidelberg Police Department, Mississippi Highway Patrol, MDOC, or another agency. Intake commonly includes identity checks, warrant or court-order review, property inventory, search, fingerprints, a booking photo, medical or safety screening, charge entry, and classification for housing. The roster is the public sign that a booking or hold has been entered.
The sheriff contact page and roster do not publish the timing of public posting. The roster disclaimer says booking times are approximate, and the release page says releases are updated once per day. That means a person may be released, transferred, or still being processed before the public page fully reflects the change. For broader custody context, the Jasper County inmate population page explains the county jail count, recent releases, and state-prison fallback.
- Arrest number
- The numeric identifier shown on Jasper roster cards for a booking or arrest entry.
- Hold for another agency
- A custody entry showing that another jurisdiction or agency has requested the jail keep the person.
- Court order
- A judge or court has directed custody, often after a warrant, missed appearance, sentence, or other court action.
- MDOC
- The Mississippi Department of Corrections, used for sentenced-prison custody after county proceedings move beyond local jail custody.
Jasper County Jail Fallbacks
If a name does not appear on the Jasper County Jail roster, the next step depends on custody type. A recent arrestee may still be in intake, released before the page update, held by another county, or listed under a different name spelling. A sentenced state prisoner should be checked through the MDOC inmate search. The MDOC Jasper Probation and Parole Office in Bay Springs is supervision-only, so it should not be treated as a jail or prison lookup page.
Federal and immigration custody use separate systems. The BOP inmate locator applies to federal prisoners, and ICE's online detainee locator applies to immigration detention. Mississippi VINE can be useful for custody notifications, but it does not replace direct jail confirmation when a family member needs current Jasper County Jail status. For a deeper roster walkthrough, use the Jasper County jail inmate records page.
About Jasper County Jail
Jasper County Jail is part of a small rural county custody system centered in Bay Springs. The public-facing records setup is simple: the sheriff site publishes a current roster and a 48-hour release list, while court charges, bond status, and case outcomes usually require the jail, court, clerk, or prosecutor. The jail roster helps identify who is in county custody, but it does not serve as a full case-management system.
No jail handbook, official program list, PREA page, medical provider page, reentry program page, grievance policy, or recent official jail reform notice was located for Jasper County Jail. State law still requires sheriffs to keep a jail docket and address medical or surgical aid needs for people confined in jail. Those laws support records access and custody duties, but they do not fill in missing local visit, mail, commissary, or housing rules.
Note: Roster data can lag custody changes, so verify status with Jasper County Jail before travel, payment, mail, or court action.